Twenty-four USF Health physicians are among the top 1 percent of physicians in the entire country, according to Top Doctors, a recently published list from U.S. News & World Report and Castle Connolly, publisher of America’s Top Doctors.

U.S. News & World Report recently released its list of the Top Doctors – one of many much anticipated rankings the magazine publishes each year – and USF Health physicians make up nearly half of the Tampa Bay area physicians deemed to be among the top 1 percent of physicians in the United States.

Top Doctors is a compilation that includes more than 27,000 physicians from across the country. All of these physicians are considered by fellow physicians to be the best in their specialties and determined by U.S. News to be in the top 10 percent in their region. From that overall list, U.S. News had a committee of medical experts look closer at the group to determine which ones warrant being considered among the top 1 percent of the nearly 800,000 physicians in the country.

Here’s how the list panned out locally for USF Health. Searching the online U.S. News list for all physicians within 25 miles of zip code 33612, 572 names came up. Of those, 80 are on the USF faculty, or 14 percent. Also within that list of 572, there are 53 in the Tampa Bay area making the list’s separate designation of being among the top 1 percent in the country in his or her specialty. Of those 53 local physicians, 24 are at USF, or 45 percent.

U.S. News Top Doctors was developed in collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publisher of America’s Top Doctors® and other guides, and was built upon data from Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors™. Castle Connolly bases its Top Doctors selections on nominations submitted by other doctors and reviewed by its physician-led research team.